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Inside AT&T’s 83 GB/hour mobile cell tower
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Re: Inside AT&T’s 83 GB/hour mobile cell tower
#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
You'll have a hard time finding a 50mbit stream on the internet...
Eh? I'm regularly pushing several times that out of my $5 VPS.
In a single video stream? 1080p uses 10mbps max. Are you japanese or do you have 4k/8k[1] equipment from the future? :)
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra_high_definition_televisio...
Re: Inside AT&T’s 83 GB/hour mobile cell tower
#43Does anyone know if they do any local web caching? There's nothing mentioned, but you'd think that a small-ish transparent web cache would save them a lot of bandwidth.
Re: Inside AT&T’s 83 GB/hour mobile cell tower
#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
You'll have a hard time finding a 50mbit stream on the internet...
Eh? I'm regularly pushing several times that out of my $5 VPS.
I won't doubt you, but HEY if you could send a link, I could use a VPS that has that kinda of pipeline for that price :)
Re: Inside AT&T’s 83 GB/hour mobile cell tower
#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
Eh? I'm regularly pushing several times that out of my $5 VPS.
In a single video stream? 1080p uses 10mbps max. Are you japanese or do you have 4k/8k[1] equipment from the future? :) [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra_high_definition_televisio...
No, but the topic was network testing more than anything realistic. I missed the point, essentially. YouTube does have some 4K video though, which probably does hit that sort of bitrate.
Re: Inside AT&T’s 83 GB/hour mobile cell tower
#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm not sure what any of this has to do with the math. You claim 128GB over a 50Mb connection. That's less than six hours of constant streaming. Unless you want to qualify it with "during the times AT&T actually provided reliable service," your numbers seem off. A lot.
You're assuming that streaming video can provide data at the same rate as speedtest. In reality those numbers are nowhere close, and don't reflect the reliability of AT&T's service.
I'm not assuming anything. I'm asking for clarity.
Re: Inside AT&T’s 83 GB/hour mobile cell tower
#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
Eh? I'm regularly pushing several times that out of my $5 VPS.
I won't doubt you, but HEY if you could send a link, I could use a VPS that has that kinda of pipeline for that price :)
https://www.digitalocean.com/
SSDTWEET gets you $10 of account credit.
Re: Inside AT&T’s 83 GB/hour mobile cell tower
#48I ran a mobile gaming conference for about 250 people in a major city back when AT&T was the only game in town for the iPhone (~2009). Without calling us or us reaching out to them, AT&T contacted the venue and installed a micro-cell--free of charge--to ensure good coverage throughout the day. Say what you want about the network or the company, but I was impressed. (It probably didn't hurt that we had some folks from…
I help run a conference in Portland, OR and would love to look into this further. Do you have any contacts still or any idea who I could get in touch with to get more information? Thanks!
I'm afraid I don't. We never actually found out from AT&T how this happened or who was responsible--someone got in touch with the venue manager and the next thing we knew, a micro-cell showed up.
I'm told one can rent them (it was a small rack of equipment), but I'm guessing it's rather expensive.
Re: Inside AT&T’s 83 GB/hour mobile cell tower
#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
Eh? I'm regularly pushing several times that out of my $5 VPS.
In a single video stream? 1080p uses 10mbps max. Are you japanese or do you have 4k/8k[1] equipment from the future? :) [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra_high_definition_televisio...
10 Mbps is a good estimate considering modern video codecs, but it's not the upper bound. 1080p video at 32bpp and 60 fps could use as much as 3 Gbps, depending on the compression.
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#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
A lot of operators are switching to higher frequency bands for their backhauls, I see a lot of Ubiquity airfibers popping up here in India. Airfibers are 800mbps full duplex
What kind of distances are they pushing them to? AirFiber radios (I'm quite fond of mine) and other 24Ghz, 60Ghz, and 80Ghz radios have severe rain fade so you need to keep the distance down to one or two miles unless you feel lucky. Now find a cell tower in that distance with fiber and available mounting space. I suppose that isn't a big problem in a more densely populated area like southern California, but still mo…
I'm pretty sure that the distances are under 10 Km or 6 miles.